Tenet Declines To Comment On Malloy Letter

Tenet Healthcare received letter from Gov. Dannel P. Malloy. The reponse: no comment.

The for-profit Texas hospital chain that backed out of buying five nonprofit Connecticut hospitals has received Gov. Dannel P. Malloy's letter inviting the company to negotiate, but it is not commenting at this point.

Malloy sent a letter Monday to the CEO of Tenet Healthcare Corp. of Dallas, Texas, asking him to talk with the governor's office about reviving a deal for five Connecticut hospitals.

"We are in receipt of Gov. Malloy's letter but we are not going to comment," Tenet Healthcare Corp. spokesman Steven Campanini wrote in an e-mail to The Courant on Tuesday.

Tenet withdrew its regulatory application to buy the hospitals after the state Department of Public Health's Office of Health Care Access and the attorney general's office set conditions for the acquisition that Tenet deemed too restrictive.